# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S223
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ask a Reverend Synod to resolve that from now on this $100.00 be
paid to our house steward out of the Synod's treasury.

7. Sizable sums were given to the school by individual friends of
the institution, and were used for the purposes for which the
respective donor had designated them.

8. As regards the board of control, the new members elected by
the Reverend Synod took office in June 1908. These were Messrs. F.
Rosenwinkel and L. Leeseberg. In June 1909, Präses [president] W.
C. Kohn took the place of the Reverend Präses H. Engelbrecht. In
place of Mr. F. Rosenwinkel, who unfortunately found himself
obliged to resign, Mr. Louis Blecke took office in October 1910.

In the name and on behalf of the board of control of the
teachers' seminary at Addison, Ill.,
                                        Theo. Kohn, Secretary.

Memorial of the Northern Illinois District concerning the
teachers' seminary at Addison.

To the Reverend Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States,
assembled as the 13th Delegate Synod at St. Louis, Mo., in May
1911.

The undersigned takes the liberty of submitting to a Reverend
Synod, for its kind consideration, the following excerpt from the
minutes of last year's Northern Illinois District:

"In a lengthy memorial the [District] Synod" (of the Northern
Illinois District) "was informed that the new building at Addison
resolved on two years ago by the General Synod, but not yet
carried out, could provide only the barest minimum of space, but
that this would in no way improve the unsatisfactory conditions in
the living and sleeping rooms. The [District] Synod was therefore
asked to move, at the next Delegate Synod, that instead of the
planned building for $30,000.00, a spacious dormitory be erected
for the students.

"The committee appointed to evaluate the memorial mentioned
submitted the following recommendations to the Reverend [District]
Synod:

"1. to ask the Reverend General Synod to erect, in place of the
planned building at Addison, a new, purpose-built dormitory, and
to undertake the necessary alterations in the old building;

"2. to send a committee of qualified lay delegates to Addison,
who would then report to the Synod on the condition of the
seminary building;

"3. to attempt among ourselves to raise $30,000.00 by the next
Delegate Synod and to offer it to the General Synod on condition
that it add the missing sum.

"At the Synod's request, a committee of 7 deputies together with
the General Vice-Präses then visited, on the Saturday of Synod